New Overwatch Hero Ana Amari

The hype is real today as Blizzard have dropped massive information bombs about one of the three new heroes set to join Overwatch in the near future.

Ana Amari will be reporting for duty soon, and fans are pretty excited for her in-game dialogue considering how universally loved she seems to be by Overwatch’s veterans, yet vaguely disliked by her daughter Farah.

Ana Amari will join the game’s support roster, providing long-ranged support in the form of her added sniper role, while boosting and healing teammates with the different tools and abilities in her arsenal.

Biotic Rifle

Ana fires darts that heal enemies and deal ongoing damage to enemy players, and she has the use of a scope for more accurate shots. This will be really useful for a support character in a game like Overwatch in my opinion, I think we’re all pretty mortified with how often we heal the wrong players as Mercy because there’s so damn much happening when you’re right in the fray.

Sleep Dart

Ana’s sidearm fires a dart that will leave an enemy unconscious until they next take damage. If it is anything like what we’ve seen in the gameplay trailer, this will be extra useful as you can interrupt Ultimates like McCree’s High Noon. They will just try again once they take damage, but if your team plays it right, you can have them down before they have the chance.

Biotic Grenade

This seems to be very similar to her Biotic Rifle except with more area. Ana throws a grenade that will heal allies in the area, damage enemies, and temporarily preventing enemies caught in the damage from healing. As with the abilities of any support character, a successful biotic grenade will rely on the team working with you. Enemy support caught in this attack can’t heal for a small window of time, so ensuring that your team are placed and ready to take that opportunity could potentially make this devastating.

Nano Boost (Ultimate)

Ana’s Ultimate deals no direct damage, but instead hits one teammate with a boost that provides extra damage, increased movement speed, and allows them to take less damage from enemy attacks. This is all about timing and placement; deciding where, when, and who the boost will be most useful to. Working with a teammate’s Ultimates that causes wide area damage could, once again, cause a lot of devastation.

Ana Amari has a difficulty level of three stars, probably because precision and strategy are needed to play her effectively, but she’s sure to make an interesting addition to a team when she joins soon. Current theories are on her entering through a patch next week, but we might not hold our breath just in case….

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